Jun Fukamachi -- It's You

 

Jun Fukamachi（深町純）is someone that I've mentioned once before on KKP through Goro Noguchi's（野口五郎）"Catalog L.A."（カタログL.A.）song as its composer. However, I have come across his name via YouTube and some other literature. Fukamachi was a Tokyo-born composer and arranger who also handled synthesizers and other keyboards often in the fusion genre, and he collaborated with many artists and provided them with their songs. The musician was also active in providing music for movies, television and musicals, and according to his Wikipedia article, he even worked with The Brecker Brothers and drummer Steve Gadd. In 1989, he established Japan's first synthesizer major at Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in the city of Kawasaki. He also released many of his own albums but sadly in November 2010, he passed away at the age of 64.

In 1981, he along with a couple of other acts in the fusion genre, Masayoshi Takanaka（高中正義）and Carioca, recorded a compilation album called "Horizon Dream", and one of the tracks under his name is "It's You". It starts out as an innocent bluesy piece representing what sounds like rising up on a beautiful day in the tropics depicted on the album cover before things get more active starting with that saxophone solo. That solo does a slow burn for about a minute or so before listeners are taken for a bit of fun on the boardwalk but still retaining that bluesiness and the original melody. The guitar and sax then have a nice little jam session with the hazy synthesizer holding court in the background after which some more party atmosphere rolls on in with the tide. Finally, it's time to come home in the evening.

Considering the title of Fukamachi's song, it's definitely not a solo act in the story but hopefully a very happy couple, very much in love.